Thanks Bruce. I'll pick up the extra extention cords. It is a soldering gun not an iron. But with a drop of 4-5 volts, that isn't enough of a drop to do anything. I thought the drop may be a lot more. Great. I have a bad splice somewhere and the signal goes on and down with a bad connection.. It has been driving me nuts. Tomorrow, weather permitting, I plan to run 500 feet of wire out along the ground to the top of the hill, and cut the beverage and tie that wire in and see if the problem goes away. That great copperclad wire I bought is very good, but...there is one big problem, if you get a break in the wire. The copper is so thin, cleaning the oxidized wire, you end up with steel that is next to impossible to solder to. I have a couple splices in the wire after trees fell across it. So what I am planing on doing. I have thousands of feet of the #14 steel wire with some kind of coating that rosincore solder does stick to it fine. Easy to make good splices. Infact I used that wire for a 2500 foot Northern beverage for years. Tough as nails and fairly light. I will solder 500 feet of tha up to the top of the hill, if than copperclad stuff is the problem, which I think it is. I checked all the the splices but there still is some issue I cannot find. I have thousands of feet of the steel wire and it solders fine to the copper. Then in the Summer, I will try and get something else or replace the whole 1500' with the steel wire. At MW frequencies, I doubt changing the wire to steel would make any difference anyway. The wire has a nice rubber jacket on it too. It came from the cable company as support wire for their lines. Thanks again.
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